Because it was the under-reported story of the year 2024, when Joe Biden was still president, when overdose deaths for a single year declined the most e v a h .
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Saturday, January 17, 2026
J. D. Vance falsely claimed on Jan 8 that Renee Good obstructed the ICE operation, but the ICE vehicles weren't there when she arrived, only arriving later to box her in, one to her left, and Ross to her right
Ross left the door to his vehicle, to the right of Good, wide open when he exited to start taking video around her vehicle.
When Good decided to flee, she had to avoid that open door, which meant aiming straight ahead before her hard turn to the right. It's why she had to back up first.
The ICE vehicles used a blocking tactic to obstruct Renee Good's vehicle. She partially obstructed traffic when she arrived, but the video shows vehicles were able to get around her on either side, which is how Ross got his vehicle around her in the first place.
ICE could have simply left the scene, leaving her sitting in the middle of the road.
ICE did not arrive to diffuse this situation, but to escalate it.
It was premeditated.
CNN video here.
Friday, January 16, 2026
If Trump had any imagination whatsoever he'd float Greenland Bonds as a proposal to finance a Greenland purchase
Instead it's just negative waves all the time.
Trump could propose a purchase to Denmark, and finance it with Greenland Bonds paying 5-6% over thirty years. Insurance companies and lotteries would love it.
But No, all he wants to do is punish, punish, punish.
CNN poll finds Americans by 2 to 1 think the economy, not immigration, is the number one issue, and 55% say Trump isn't just failing but is making it worse
CNN poll finds majority of Americans say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities
... Most, 64%, say he hasn’t gone far enough in trying to reduce the price of everyday goods. ... Only one-third of Americans now say they believe that Trump cares about people like them, down from 40% last March and the worst rating of his political career. ...
Trump job approval in Real Clear Politics average falls to new second term low 42.1%
If Trump wants to lose the US House even bigger than he's going to, he should by all means double down, add fuel to the flames, and invoke the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis.
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Donald Trump says, When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election
When you think of it, he shouldn't even be president one minute longer.
... “It's
some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you
don't win the midterms,” Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished
so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an
election.”
TACO Trump tells massacred Iranian anti-government movement that help is on its way, and now it's not
Just like Obama abandoned the Green Movement in 2009.
The Uniparty. You can count on not counting on it.
Trump's government is $602 billion in the hole for the first three months of fiscal year 2026
This rate of deficit spending implies $2.4 trillion added to the national debt for FY2026 when it's over.
It ain't called SUX for nothing
Performance for VUSUX, Vanguard Long-Term Treasury Fund, total returns, as of 12/31/25:
1-year: 5.64%
3-year: 0.78%
5-year: -7.20%
10-year: 0.06%
Inception 2/12/2001: 4.10%
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Some of the commenters on this video snarl over the absence of such protests in Minnesota over the $9 billion fraud schemes, not realizing that this street theatre is costing them $75 billion
The ICE agents in this video twice fail to find open doors on their own vehicles to dump their detainees in, the incompetence being a metaphor for the ultimate failure all this sound and fury will turn out to be, when in the end ICE will be lucky to have deported only 2.4 million of the now 25 million illegal aliens Trump says are present in the United States.
The rapidity with which one man has turned the relatively quiet streets of America into a heretofore only imagined police state exposes yet another failure of the American system of government to prevent the abuse of power.
If it were not so, this would not be happening.
Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson and five others resign in Minnesota as Trump tries to strong-arm the investigation of Renee Good's killing in the direction of victim-blaming
... the office continues to face pressure to treat the investigation of the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer as an assault on a federal officer case. ...
He resigned from the attorney's office along with Harry Jacobs, Melinda Williams, Thomas Calhoun-Lopez, Ruth Schneider and Tom Hollenhurst. ...
100% ground beef averaged a record $6.089 in year one of Trump 2.0, and hit a record high $6.687 in Dec 2025 to celebrate the New Golden Age for them, not for you
Like many other such graphs, the graph for 100% Ground Beef won't show the 2025 average because the government shutdown meant no figure for October in the data.
The average $6.089 in 2025 is for eleven months without October, with October obviously a high figure, too, which means the annual average is no doubt higher than $6.089.
Food at home inflation was 2.4% year over year in Dec 2025, and there has still been no food deflation like there was in 2009 or 2016 to relieve the have-nots of America
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| food at home inflation 2.4% yoy |
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Mark Zandi: Missing data from October and November combined with tariffs means inflation is still probably higher than it appears, closer to 3% year over year rather than 2.6%
From the story here:
... “The bottom line is, I think inflation is still uncomfortably high,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s. “Inflation for staples, necessities, remains elevated.” ...
Tariffs levied by President Donald Trump have put upward pressure on the inflation rate, Zandi said. ...
“I think were it not for the tariffs, we would have been back to target already,” Zandi said. “But tariffs have pushed up inflation a little over half a [percentage] point.” ...
Overall, the headline inflation rate is higher than it appears on paper, Zandi said. The record-long government shutdown, which ran from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, prevented federal statisticians from collecting typical inflation data in October. Without that data, the BLS assumed that no price increases had taken place during the month for most categories of goods and services, Zandi said. Moody’s estimates the annual CPI inflation rate would be around 3% if that data were included, he said. ...
Overall CPI inflation, not seasonally adjusted, came in at 2.7% year over year in December 2025, while core CPI inflation was lower at 2.6% in today's report:
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Monday, January 12, 2026
Former Fed Chairs finally stand up for Powell in public
Greenspan, Bernanke, and Yellen say Trump using ‘prosecutorial attacks’ to undermine Fed
... “The reported criminal inquiry into Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell is an unprecedented attempt to use prosecutorial attacks to undermine that independence,” a statement backed by more than a dozen signatories said.
“This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences for inflation and the functioning of their economies more broadly,” it continued. “It has no place in the United States whose greatest strength is the rule of law, which is at the foundation of our economic success.” ...
“The Federal Reserve’s independence and the public’s perception of that independence are critical for economic performance, including achieving the goals Congress has set for the Federal Reserve of stable prices, maximum employment, and moderate long-term interest rates,” the statement said. ...
Mad King Ludwig's disgusting vendetta against Jerome Powell escalates into DOJ criminal probe of Fed Chair's oversight of building renovations
What this really is is Mad King Ludwig's builder's envy. He thinks he should be in charge of the literal remaking of every Washington edifice, just as he thinks he should be in charge of everything else, including interest rates.
Powell's term expires on May 15, but the lunatic we put in charge of the country just can't let Powell fade away without picking this disgusting fight over nothing.
The Department of Justice should be ashamed of itself, but like most MAGAts, it is incapable of shame.
Watch here.
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Hey Look! Labor's Share of Business Income has never been LOWER than under our lord and saviour, king and high muckety muck, Uniparty Poopulist President Donald J. Trump
The Golden Age . . . for business, not for you.
3Q2025, updated Jan 8, 2026:
If Trump had any true populist balls, he'd push for permanent 10% credit card interest rate caps
... Independent U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a fierce Trump critic, and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, a Republican, have previously introduced bipartisan legislation to cap credit card interest rates at 10% for five years. This bill explicitly directs credit card companies to limit rates as part of broader consumer relief legislation.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida have also introduced a bill in the House to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, reflecting cross-aisle interest in addressing high rates. ...
ExxonMobil tells Trump that Venezuela is uninvestable [sic], Trump stiffs ConocoPhillips, Chevron, already there, is ready to go go go
What the Big Oil executives told Trump about investing in Venezuela
... “We’ve had our assets seized there twice, and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here,” Woods told Trump at the White House. “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it’s uninvestable.” ...
ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance congratulated Trump on ousting former President Nicolás Maduro. He said the banking sector will need to help restructure Venezuela’s debt and provide billions of dollars in financing for the restore [sic] the country’s infrastructure. ... Trump told the Conoco CEO that the U.S. government is not looking at recovering the assets the company lost during the 2007 nationalization.
“We’re not going to look at what people lost in the past, because that was their fault,” Trump said. “That was a different president. You’re going to make a lot of money, but we’re not going to go back.” ...
Vice Chairman Mark Nelson said Chevron has a way forward to rapidly ramp up its production, which currently stands at about 240,000 barrels per day.
“We have a path forward here very shortly to be able to increase our liftings from those joint ventures 100% essentially effective immediately,” Nelson told Trump. “We are also able to increase our production within our own disciplined investment schemes by about 50% just in the next 18 to 24 months.” ...
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Trump said we're not going to have Russia as a neighbor lol
"Right now, we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not because if we don't do it Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbour. Okay? I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way."
Here.
Who's going to tell him?
I hope this doesn't mean Alaska is . . . for sale.
ICE agent filmed his murder of Renee Good, shifted camera from his shooting hand to his left hand ten seconds before he pulled the trigger, showing he pre-meditated use of force before there was even a reason
Video taken by the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minnesota on Wednesday was apparently leaked to a right wing website, Alpha News, last night. The video clearly shows Good steering to drive around and away from him when she was shot, in direct contradiction to Trump and Vance's claims that she was deliberately trying to run him over. Interestingly, it also shows him changing his phone from his right hand to his left hand ten seconds before the fatal shots were fired, which freed up his right hand to draw the weapon.
Here.
The ICE agent premeditated his use of force at second 31 in this video he took, probably because of the nasty interchange between him and Renee Good's "husband":
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